The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10
Congress AdjOurns Sine Die at Noon
To-Day.
GOlOred TrOttsr Confirmed as Recorder
Of Deeds for she D.Of C.
4 COlOred Ba1d Hired to Serenads
the President.
The River and Harbor Bill Fails TO
Receive the Executive Sanction.
Minor Items Ct Interest Reported for
To-Day.
CONGREGATIONAL.
SENATE.

this morning Plumb, from the confer
ence committee on the District of Co
lumbia appropriation bill, reported that
the committee had been unable TO
agree and moved that the senate insist
on its agreement and asked further
conference, and it was so ordered. He
also presented a cOnferenence report
on the bill for the relief of settlers and
purchasers of public lands in Kansas
and Nebraska, which was agreed to-:
also conference report on the postoffice
appropriation bill of the senate reced-
| ing from the section for mail steamers
service to South America; agreed to.
The deficiency bill, on being taken
up, an item Ton motion of Dawesl was
inserted to pay to the ChOctaw Indians
81 ,S58 GOO, the amount of the judgment
term, 1885. Finally the bill and
amounts were reported to the senate.
Several house bills authorizing the
construction of railroad bridges passed
the senate. Then at 6 a. m. on motion
of HOar the senate went into secret
session.
The doors were reopened at 10
O'Clock, the senate in the meanwhile
had taken two hours recess.
Plumb presented the conference re-
port on the District OF Columbia ap-
preparation bill, which was agreed to-
Dawes presented the conference re-
port on the fertilization bill. 1t was
that the conferrees had not been able
to agree Dawes said it was with infinite
regret that the senate confeereS were
obliged to make this report. The report
which they had submitted to the COM
mittee was expressed in the form of
bill which he would have printed in
the record,ss and along with it
hn Uyn1lld have NFinfP6 nIan
submitted at the last moment
by the house conferees, and the coun-
try would judge between these propo-
sitions and decide where the blame lay
for the failure by congress to do any
thing towards inaugurating some eff
cient system of fertilization. The
irreconcilable difference between the
senate managers and the house man
ayers was on the question of purchas-
ing steel for the purpose of making
steel guns of the highest type. The
question might be summed up in one
sentence, whether steel guns should
be subordinate to cast iron guns, or
cast iron guns subordinated to
the highest type of steel guns.
Hawley, another of the cOnferees,
said he desired to emphasize this most
extraordinary condition of affairs.
There was no Notifications bill to the
and there was no money to cut grass
along glacis of forts or to buy shingles
or nails for old sheds and dwellings of
forts; not one solitary cent. Work
was stopped and all property at these
forts are left to rack and ruin for the
coming two years.
The Presiding Officer then an
nounced the appointment of Cockrell,
Harris, Jones, of Arkansas, Platt and
Gn1lOrn nOSnO0iffon ON inuacfina.
ton into the Executive Department;
Dolph and Cockrell to attend the an
nual examinations at the Military
| Academy, and Dawes and Gray on the
board of examiners at the Naval Acad-
envy.
The Presiding Officer signed at HIS,
the Enrolled District of Columbia Ap-
preparation Bill, and then it was rushed
to the President for his signature.
Hale announced that the conference
committee on the deficiency bill agreed
on the report but as the amendments
| were yerv numerous and had not been
printed or numbered the committee
had not yet been able to present its re-
port. 1t hoped to be able to do so with
in the next seventeen minutes.
A resolution of thanks to the Presid-
ing Officer for his ability, courtesy and
| impartialty was offered by Harris and
unanimously adopted.
Dawes pleaded business engagements
as the reason why he could not attend
| the annual examination at Annapolis
/ and Aldrich was appointed in his place
| At this point of time, (really about
noon, but with the hands on the clock
| dial lingering about quarter before,
| there was subsistence of business and
a general lull in the Senate chamber
| 1t being understood that the President
l HE 70 tho Cnnifnl nnG
| of his secretaries, Pruden, appeared at
the door, and announced that the
President had approved and signed
several bills. The President himself
had about that time reached his room
in the Capitol. Senator Sherman, with
Senator Salisbury. reported that the
committee had waited upon the Presi
dent of the United States and inquired
if he had any further communication
to make to Congress, aud had been as
Sured by the President that he had III
further communication to make.
The Presiding Officer then an
nounced that the constitutional periOC
of the Forty-ninth Congress having
been completed, the Senate stood ad
journed without day.
The dial of the Senate clock ShOWeG
it lacked five minutes of the hour O
noon, but the actual time was four min
utes past.
Hale had not been able within tn
seventeen minutes to which he wa
limited to have prepared and to presen
the conference report on the Genera
Deficiency Appropriation Bill, and con
sequently that bill has failed to becom
law.
HOUSE.
At five o'clock this morning the eli
fects of the sixteen hour session wa
visible in the appearance of the hall O
the house and on the members of tina
body. The floor was Strewn with scrap
of paper and remnants of document
| and reports. The atmosphere in tn
house was very impure, oppressive an
J well impregnated with tobacco smoke
Notwithstanding repeated appeals @
the speaker to members, requestin
; them to observe the rule, which Pre-
hibits smoking on the floor and except
ing a dozen or so members, whose yea
: in behalf of favorite measures KEEP
) them on the alert to take advantage c
. any opportunity to secure a recOgn
} ton. the gentlemen of the house lapse
[ | into indifference and stretched on tn
: sofas in the rear of the hall and in til
: Hobbies, lounging back in chairs wit
their feet elevated On desks, or grouI
ing together in conversational moOC
they endeavOred to ward off wearines
: consequent upon the long VlgllS-
g A few minutes after O'Clock BlouI
4 of Georgia announced that the confe
: : ence committee on the postoffice "a
= preparation bill had reached an agre
!, ment.
Ward of Indiana called up the vel
: message on the senate bill for the ere
. ton of a public building at Lafayett
H Indiana.
+ Springer OF Illinois raised a questio
= of consideration and the house pr
= ceeded with the bill to kill time uni
\ the legislative bill should come fro
n the senate. This bill arrived about
\ o'clock and was Immediately called l
Al by Holman, who explained that t
A point of difference remaining betwe
a the houses was ON the item for seer
tarieS for senators. Holman NOV
that the house recede FROM the dis
greement to the senatorial Gle
tel amendment.